Music Genome Project

This is a video from Pandora which is part of the music genome project. They have broken down music into its component parts, which allows them to play music for you that is similar to the music you like, but possibly from other artists that you have never heard before. Visit it and play with it, because it is one of the coolest things to discover new music that you like. You start by choosing a song or artist that you like, and it starts playing songs similar to what you chose. You get to vote on whether you like each song, and it slowly tailors the songs to your responses. If you don't like a song, it instantly can skip past it, but it is like your own personal radio station, even better than the "My 99.5" station.

Technological Ingenuity

Wouldn't it be nice if all that carbon dioxide contributing to global warming were turned into DVDs? Of course carbon dioxide isn't the greatest worry, since it is about the least potent green house gas. All the methane produced by cows is much more potent at creating a greenhouse effect, methane gas is 20 times more effective at trapping heat.
Of course we will also be able to reduce our pollution by buying cars that get more than 100 mpg. There are other vehicles in the works for the competition from the X Prize Foundation.

Possibly boring personal opinion ramblings follow: Beware.

I like these ideas. I believe that it is more important to create good economic reasons to save the environment, rather than have the government force things upon us. I don't like the haze across the valley, but we need less force, and more logical ways to proceed than we hear from many politicians and environmentalists. They seem more intent on stopping all progress than on giving solutions that make sense. We can't just stop doing everything, because people still need to work, and eat, and improve.

Things are different today than way back when we couldn't cut down the forest fast enough. There are more people on the Earth, there is more technology, and more potential than ever before. We can't go back now, we need to move forward. We still need to try to be good stewards of what we have, and not always choose the most destructive ways to solve problems, but having us all go back to hunter gatherers just isn't going to work.